Simultaneous Outage Occurs in Major Artificial Intelligence Chatbots
The exact common cause behind the sudden access issues experienced consecutively in ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok models on Thursday has not yet been fully clarified.
Leading artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced outages in the same time frame on Thursday, while statements made by the companies sought to clarify the details and potential connections of the issues.
Simultaneous Collapse in Artificial Intelligence Assistants
On Thursday, three major artificial intelligence chatbots—ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok—became inaccessible simultaneously without any warning.
Routing Error Explanation by OpenAI
Only OpenAI responded to press inquiries, announcing that a routing error starting around 7:43 a.m. affected ChatGPT and Codex, and that the issue was resolved as of 8:17.
Status Assessment by Anthropic and SpaceXAI Companies
While the company Anthropic reported that only the Opus 4.8 and Opus 5 models were affected, Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI officially stated that widespread outages had occurred.
Infrastructure Provider Claims and Memphis Data Center
While claims regarding an issue originating from Cloudflare or Microsoft Azure were denied, SpaceXAI apologized, stating that Grok and its partners were affected due to an outage at the data center in Memphis.